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GIRLS LIKE FARMS; ! NOT SO WITH MEN HEAD OP WOMEN'S LAND A KMT INQUIRES. Some Reasons Given I I Students in College of Middle West Say Girls Look Down on Farmers. (New York World.) While applications from women for farm jobs continue to pour into head- , quarters of the women's land army,! young men, especially discharged soldiers, show a marked indifference to this sort of labor. The women who had their first taste of farm life last year, under, pressure of war demands, " in *-r\ vatnrn fn 1 f fhic VMT arc oagci iu itiuiu , In one of the big colleges of the Middle West recently a group of male j students were asked by their profes- j sor why most of them scorned farm | work. Their reply was: "Girls somehow look down ~n a farmer. What girl would marry us if we became farmers?" When the women's land army be- s i came a division of the department ot; labor recently, Mrs. William H. Hubert of New York was made national! director, with headquarters -x. Washington. Mrs. Hubert has. returned - from a visit to many States, where ! the work of the farmerette was car- j ried on last summer. She confirmed ; the reports of the employment bu- j y reaus regarding the antipathy of men to farm work. ;"We have been receiving for sever, xal weeks past, both at Washington and at our New York headquarters, i' an average of 40 applications a day! from young women eager to go on v i farms this summer," she said. "Many , of\hese applicants were members of j the land army last year. We then had about 15,000 members. This summer we expect a large increase in number." Pointing to the statement by Food Commissioner Hoover j that the food administration naa pledged 20,000,000 tons of food to Europe this year, Mrs. Hubert vsaid: "It is for this reason that the government decided that the women's land army should not be demobilized, but should be directed as a part of the nation's service from Washington. If this country is to produce the - I Ioouinei * $ WE HAV] NES Automol converted Steam em Gin outfits \ V Ck n a t*i .f f T VUJ.1 r I Springs, E % B I GASOLEl i big increased amount of food supplies this year it means a vast army to undertake the work. So far the response we are receiving from the women is most encouraging. In a few of the States I have just visited, men have shown an interest in farming as an occupation, and I believe in these States many men will be recruited for the season's work; but in many States this interest is lacking; men seem to prefer any sort of work to that which the land offers. Where this condition prevails we shall make every effort to enlist large numbers of women, but the women's land army is not competing with men in farm labor; where men show a preference for this work we are not sug gesting the employment of women. "The women who enlisted for farm service last year represented women in all walks of life. In some units as many as a dozen professions were represented, while others included college women and young women of the leisure class, who were familiar with certain phases of gardening because of the exeprience they had had on their own estates. "The girls served in many instances to develop a new social life in the community where they were employed. They lived in tents or barracks, located within a reasonable distance of the different farms or estates where they were employed. Jiiacn unit naa its own Housekeeper, so that when the girls had worked eight hours they were not called upon to do housework. If weather conditions demanded extra time in getting in crops or in their cultivation the farmer paid extra for it in proportion to the daily wage of $2 in most cases. ''The unit plan is not only advantageous in itself, but is a means toward a new career for women who may take up and manage their own farms, or who may eventually be placed individually as farm laborers at the tasks for which they are especially fitted. "Whenever a unit has been established it has helped to form a community center and a community spirit in rural districts. The women have learned to love farm work and to adapt themselves to country life. Both Interesting and Healthful. <x "Many young women who became farm laborers last summer, just to help out, found it so congenial, interesting and healthful that they have since become permanently identified with country life. I have heard of some who married farmers; others, rn Machine DENMARK, S. C. E OPENED OUR DOORS F IS, TO FILL A LONG-NEE! WANT IN THIS SECTION. biles repaired or rebuilt. A into trucks or cut down to jines overhauled and boiler; ; planned, erected or rebuilt. y in stock a full line of Vi [ant Break Spark Plugs, etc *E OILS ou will do well to call on i | young women of means, bought small places of their own and developed ! them, and still others who were daughters of large estate owners be , came interested in gardening pro, posed to continue it on their own ; properties. i I "So, it may be that the young wo| men, filled with enthusiasm for this new life, may lead the young men of the country back to the land. Xo, i the women's land army is in no sense a matrimonial bureau. But it would i be a fine thing if the young women of the country set this good example j to the young men who are now seek ing employment here. ; "We have hundreds of letters from i i farmers expressing satisfaction and gratitude for the help given to them last summer by the girls. From the Atlantic to tl^ Pacific they ploughed, planted, cultivated and harvested i crops; cut, stacked and loaded hay, | corn, rye and wheat, and did silo work. They worked on the big commercial farms, dairy farms, truck I farms, private estates and in home i gardens. They did poultry work, ! dairy work, bee-keeping and team! ing. They learned to handle tractors, j harvesters and other farm machin| ery. In slack seasons they scythed , brush, sawed and stacked wood and ! did other work which was not stricti ly food production. In all these oc! cupations they were a success. Their I efficiency is proved by the change of i attitude on the part of the farmers from scepticism or incredulity regarding their ability to enthusiastic | appreciation. "No arrangements had been made i last summer for supplying individual help \to the farmer. We were responsible for the girls sent out, and they had our protection in the matter of housing, hours and w^ges. 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